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96 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [The Mound.
arts classes as well as those for theology; and
accordingly Mr. Patrick C. Macdougal was appointed,
in 1844, Professor of Moral Philosophy,
the Rev. John Millar was appointed Classical Tutor,
and in 1845 the Rev. Alexander C. Fraser was
appointed Professor of Logic. To give effect to the
view long cherished by the revered Dr. Chalmers,
that logic and ethics should follow the mathematical
and physical sciences in the order of study, the
usual order thereof was practically altered, though
not imperatively so.
procured in George Street, and there the business
of the college was conducted until 1850.
These class-rooms were near the house ot
Mr. Nasmyth, an eminent dentist, and as the
students were in the habit of noisily applauding
Dr. Chalmers, their clamour often startled the
patients under the care of Mr. Nasmyth, who by
letter requested the reverend principal to make the
students moderate their applause, or express it
some other way than beating on the floor with
their feet. On this, Dr. Chalmers promptly informed
THE BANK OF SCOTLAND, FROM PRINCES STREET GARDENS.
The provision thus made for arts classes was
greatly due to the circumstance that at that time
the tests imposed upon professors in the established
universities were of such a nature and mode of
application as to exclude from the professorial
chairs all members of the Free Church.
When these tests were abolished, and Professors
Fraser and Macdougal were elected to corresponding
chairs in the University of Edinburgh, in
1853 and 1857, this extended platform was renounced,
and the efforts of the Free Church of
Scotland were concentrated exclusively upon training
in theology.
Premises-however, inadequate for the full
development of the intended system-were at once
them of the dentist?s complaint, and begged that
they would comply with his request. ?I would
be sorry indeed if we were to give offence to any
neighbour,? said the principal j adding, with a touch
of that dry humour which was peculiar to him,
?but more especially Mr. Nasmyth, a gentleman
so very much in the mouths oi the public.?
Immediately after the Disruption, Dr. Chalmers
had taken active steps to secure for the Free
Church a proper system of theological training, in
full accordance with the principles he had
advocated so long, and subscription lists were at
once opened to procure a building suited to the
object. Each contributor gave Lz,ooo, and
Dr. Welsh succeeded in obtaining from twentp

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one persons ;61,ooo each, a sum which more than
sufficed to purchase the site of the college-the
old Guise Palace, with its adjacent closes-and to
erect the edifice, while others were built at
Glasgow and Aberdeen.
Plans by W. H. Playfair, architect, were prepared
and adopted, after a public competition had
been resorted to, and the new buildings were at
once proceeded with. The foundation stone was
iaid on the 4th of June, 1846, by Dr. Chalmers,
~ The stairs on the south side of the quadrangle
lead to the Free Assembly Hall, on the exact site
of the Guise Palace. It was erected from designs
by David Bryce, at a cost of A7,000, which was
collected by ladies alone belonging to the Free
Church throughout Scotland.
The structure was four years in completion, and
was opened on the 6th of November, 1850,under the
sanction of the Commission of the Free General
Assembly, by their moderator, Dr. N. Paterson,
LIBRARY OF THE FREE CHURCH COLLEGE. (Fwm o P/wtozm#h by G. W. Wi&on and Co.)
exactly one year previous to the day which saw his
remains consigned to the tomb. The ultimate cost
was ;646,506 8s. Iod., including the price of the
ground, Ero,ooo.
The buildings are in the English collegiate style,
combining the common Tudor with somd of the later
Gothic They form an open quadrangle (entered
by a handsome groined archway), 165 feet from
east to west and 177 from south to north, including
on the east the Free High Church. The edifice
has two square towers (having each four crocketed
pinnacles), IZI feet in height, buttressed at the
corners from base to summit. There is a third
tower, 95 feet in height. The college contains
seven great class-rooms, a senate hall, a students'
hall, and a library, the latter adorned with a
statue of Dr, Chalmers as Principal, by Steel
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who delivered a sermon and also a special address
to the professors and students. Subsequently, this
inaugural sermon and the introductory lectures
delivered on the same occasion to their several
classes by Professors Cunningham, Buchanan,
Bannerman, Duncan, Black, Macdougal, Fraser,
and Fleming, were published in a volume, as a
record of that event.
The constitution of this college is the same as
that of the Free Church colleges elsewhere. The
Acts of Assembly provide for vesting college
property and funds, for the election of professors,
and for the general management and superintendence
of college business. The college buildings
are vested in trustees appointed by the Church.
A select committee is also appointed bp the
j General Assembly, consisting of " eleven ministers